On 25/10/2019 17:11, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
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I don't understand why the power supplies are so overspec'd. Maybe for
older power hungry hard drives or something.
Hi, Iain.
Server PSUs are overspec'ed for at least two reasons: One is peak
start-up 'inrush' currents, and another is a
Hi,
On 22/10/2019 10:20, Hibby wrote:
> 3120VA isn't that much, and in terms of heat output is pretty low too - my
> server potentially draws 750W. 2-3 of them and we're stuffed!
Your server doesn't draw 750W.
It's more like 130W.
I don't understand why the power supplies are so overspec'd.
> Are we going to run the aircon all the time? What happens when someone
> switches it off?
The aircon won't make that much difference - 2-3C change in ambient external
temperature shouldn't impact us that much. Really we need to consider our heat
dissipation of the hardware mounted inside and
Hi,
On 21/10/2019 15:17, Midder wrote:
> I still have WSPR's Rack in my garage, it may be useful for this, though
> noise may be an issue depending on what er put in it. IIRC it is a full
> length one unless WSPR wants it back?
I do remember being able to fit an HP DL360 in it.
Thanks,
Iain.
Hello Hibby,
I still have WSPR's Rack in my garage, it may be useful for this, though noise
may be an issue depending on what er put in it. IIRC it is a full length one
unless WSPR wants it back?
Midder
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 04:29:27PM +0100, Hibby wrote:
> Howdy friends!
>
> I know we’ve
Hi,
On 21/10/2019 14:43, Hibby wrote:
>> * how long will we have the space for this?
> No idea!
This is probably the biggest thing to sort out.
>> * do we have power for this?
> We should probably wait until we get our first power bill and find out how
> much a kWh is, and then we can plan
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, at 1:41 PM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> On 20/10/2019 16:29, Hibby wrote:
> > I know we’ve got a couple of racks in space already, but I’d like to gather
> > thoughts and ideas on consolidating all the hardware into a single 21U or
> > 42U rack,
>
> I believe we now have the
Hi,
On 20/10/2019 16:29, Hibby wrote:
> I know we’ve got a couple of racks in space already, but I’d like to gather
> thoughts and ideas on consolidating all the hardware into a single 21U or 42U
> rack,
I believe we now have the space for this. Considerations remaining are:
* how long will
Howdy friends!
I know we’ve got a couple of racks in space already, but I’d like to gather
thoughts and ideas on consolidating all the hardware into a single 21U or 42U
rack,
I’ve got an HP server that I’d really like to take out it’s current location
and set up in space as a shared VM
